Thank you for visiting our fundraising page. We are raising money for the British Heart Foundation, and we'd be so grateful for your support.

Sadly, everyday hundreds of people lose their lives to some form of heart or circulatory disease, and both Tim & I have experienced this first-hand. 

We have both lost our dads to undiagnosed heart disease. Tim’s dad, Alan Smith, in 1996 at the age of just 49 following a heart attack; and more recently, in 2020 during the first Covid Lockdown, I unexpectedly lost my dad, Mick Bexon, he had not long celebrated his 70th birthday and passed peacefully in his sleep. Both us, our families and our friends were left truly devastated by our individual losses, the pain of which never goes away.

But it doesn’t end there. Not long after my dad passed away, Tim had a suspected heart attack and after being advised to lose weight, he began walking to get fitter. In 2021, Tim was told he was Type 2 diabetic. With a history of this in his family also (he lost his Mum to Type 1 complications in 2006), Tim was determined to turn the diagnosis around and in February 2021, decided to give Couch 2 5K a go. Having previously completed this in 2019, I decided to join him to give him encouragement and to get my own fitness back up. Six months later, Tim weighed 21 kilos less and is no longer type 2 diabetic. 

When we first started running, Tim couldn’t imagine running for 3 minutes let alone 30!  For those who see us on Facebook, you can see that we have fallen in love with running!
So, the obvious goal was to enter into a half marathon…..running 21.1km to raise money for heart research.

We would truly love your support in raising money whilst we embrace our running journey. If you can spare a couple of pounds, instead of that takeaway coffee perhaps, we know BHF (and we) would be truly grateful.

Every pound helps so please give what you can to help us hit our target. 

A BIG Thank you from the bottom of our Hearts!
Sandra & Tim x